Turret coal-bin.



PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

C. C. GOLLETTE.

TURRET GOAL BIN.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1004.

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PATENT ED MAY 2, 1905.

G; C. GOLLETTE.

TURRET GOAL BIN.

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ATTORNEY g in the drawings, comprises a circular rack a f iTED STATES Patented. May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

TURRET COAL-:BIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,887, dated. May 2, 1905.

Application filed September 29, 1904. Serial No. 226.516.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL CLIFFORD COL- LETTE,H.OitiZ6I1 of the United States,and a resident of Springfield, in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Turret Goal-Bin, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a coal-bin for locomotive-tenders; and the objects thereof are to provide a convenient receptacle for coal which can be operated with very little power and which will avoid the necessity for dragging the coal down.

Further objects of the invention will appear in the course of the subjoined description. 7

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a locomotivetender, showing a preferred form of the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a side view, on an enlarged scale, of the coal-bin removed from the tender.

The coal-bin a is preferably made circular in form and is provided with a pivot-bearing a at its center, upon which it may turn. Means is also provided for turning the bin upon this center. This means, as represented upon the lower edge of the bin, with which meshes a gear 6, connected with a second gear Z), which is operated by means of a handwhecl c. It will be readily understood that other means for connecting the operating hand-wheel with the rack (6 1113.57 be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention. The bin is also supported by means of rollers ta which bear upon tracks a", mounted upon the tender. The bin is preferably provided with a central vertical partition d. and this partition is provided with doors cl for use in case of emergency, which swing in the manner indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The doors by which the coal is removed from the bin are preferably double, consisting of two hinged parts 6 a, one being provided with a latch e and the other with catches e therefor. A gate f is pivoted to the casing of the doors at one side thereof, as indicated at f, and is designed to pass down in front of the doors, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3, so as to aid in holding them in position when secured by the catch or stop In order to open the doors, the gate f is swung up upon its pivot to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 and may be secured by a catch or stop f upon the door. The coal may then be shoveled out at the back of the doors 6 6 until a sufficient amount is removed to permit the latch c to be lifted and the doors to be opened, the gate f first being re moved from the catch f".

The tender g, upon which the turret is mounted, may be of any ordinary construction, but having a platform g, upon which the tracks a are located, and having a bearing 9 for the pivot a. It will be understood that the turret-bin is adapted to be revolved by hand-power through the gears described and that each of the two sections of the bin into which it is divided by the partition (Z is provided with doors 6 e and gate f.

It will further be seen that all the coal can be used from either section without handling and that it can be brought withineasy reach from the cab, that in this manner dragging the coal down is avoided, and that all the coal in the bin may be readily reached and used.

Having thus described my invention, lclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a locomotive-tender, of a coal-bin rotatably mounted thereon.

2. The combination with a locomotive-tender, of a coal-bin rotatably mounted thereon, and means for rotating the bin.

3. The combination with a locomotive-tender, of a coal-bin rotatably mounted thereon, a circular rack secured to said coal-bin, gearing engaging with said rack, and a hand-wheel connected with said gearing for rotating the bin.

4:. A rotatable coal-bin having a partition provided with a door.

5. A rotatable coal-bin having a door comprising two hinged parts, and a gate pivoted to the bin in front of the door.

6. A rotatable coal-bin for locomotive-tenders, having a partition provided with a door, a door in each of the two parts into which the bin is so divided, said doors each comprising two hinged parts and a gate pivoted to the In testimony whereofIhave signed my name bin at one side of each door, said gates being to this specification in the presence of two subcapable of swinging vertically upon their pivscribing witnesses.

ots so as to'expose the lower edges of said CARL CLIFFORD COLLETTE. 5 doors, a circular rack upon the lower edge of Witnesses:

said bin, a gear meshing with said rack, and GEO. A. PHIFER,

a hand-wheel for operating said gear. THos. HARRISON. 

